IGN's Space Marine 2 Preview Is Kinda Bad 

Please remember not to be a Heretic thats planning on directly harassing the woman who wrote the preview for this game but it is okay to critisize her and IGN as a whole. As this company has formed some of the worst articles over the years while making more income than my entire bloodline combined. "You can't spell ignorant without IGN"

Can't spell Ignorant without IGN.

The way they swing their heavy chainsword is full of the exaggerated swagger of a black templar

Comparing a 40k game to a From Software tile out of the blue for no reason has got to be the most IGN thing ever

He straight up sounds like he was told to play this, didn't, and is doing "criticisms" based off of footage.

The fact that they compared the combat system to Sekiro and not DOOM, tells me everything I need to know. They have absolutely no clue what they’re talking about.

The biggest wonder of our time is how the f does IGN still exist ? They would do everyone a huge favor if they could go bankrupt faster than they already are.

If IGN says it's bad I'm going to pre-order it

Basically they weren't paid to make a good review, so they gave a bad one.

"Executions break the flow of combat" Yeah, it's a 2-3 second break to catch your breath before you return to purging the mutant, the heretic, and the alien.

The game has too much toxic masculinity for IGN

So if I'm hearing this guy correct he wants the devs to take out all the finishers and special moves that break up the monotony of combat and increase the attack speed by 200% so the ten ton space marine is attacking as fast as a Ninja... How the fuck do these clowns have jobs?

IGN reviewers being bad at games? *Shocker.*

"Game Journalists" aren't actual gamers

Remember everyone. Gaming journalists aren't gamers

So they dislike the melee combat and over the top executions………they realize this is a 40k game right?

That guy saying Space Marine stole the executions from Doom 2016 when Space Marine came out in 2011 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Dexerto also said the game was "a mix of Doom, Helldivers and BG3" which confuses me so much 😭 What abt this game is like BG3

Game Journalists don't know 40k as much as we do, guys. We're TOTALLY fine without IGN. We love SM2, just the way it is.

Bro just cant block, parry, dodge MASSIVE skill issue

5:15 you’re actually wrong the execution system is tied to health regeneration, so yes you do have to do them. I don’t mind, I think they are sick, but not doing executions is the equivalent of a challenge run. You were wrong.

I was done with IGN when a criticism of Pokemon Alpha Sapphire was "too much water".

I can say with reasonable certainty that the reviewer has not played the first space marine

Nobody cares about IGN reviews when there are so many entertaining reviews from RU-vidr gamers

They gave him some busswords to sound like he knows anything about 40k and then just let him drool all over the script. As they say, cant spell ignorant without ign

The dude literally sounded repulsed, bored, annoyed, and depressed, all at the same time. He couldn't say a single sentence without insulting the game while reading from his script. Not enough "female" space marines for them

IGN stopped being relavant after Jessica Chobot left

0:15 it was brought into the world too soon, I miss that game.

IGN doesn't like it? I now feel confident in pre-ordering it.

That guy’s voice alone was enough for me to completely ignore the video.

Not doing badass executions in a warhammer game is like buying GTA games and not doing heist or any criminal activity….like it’s a space marine. I want to watch him cut a tyranid in half with a chain sword…

IGN will give this 6/10 because it's too masculine

IGN - No female space marines. 0/10.

IGN Lost All Credibility over a Decade ago.

They want those "canned" movements for rtx storytelling games and not a 3rd person multiplayer shooter. They want realism on background physics but gets bored on a mechanically rewarding feature?

One correction: The executions are not optional, they are a core part of the gameplay as they regenerate armor

Ofc IGN is shit

That animation of slamming that tyranid on the floor is frigging awesome!

Funny how we still care aboht IGN... We should make them feel irrelevant.

Game critics; especially from big names like IGN don't even play video games. I'll take my friends words on it long before I would literally ANYONE from companies like IGN

get the feeling the IGN reviewer has never played a game before 2018

The reviewer sounds like the type of dude that eats bananas for the shape

Honestly at this point IGN aren't a company full of gamers anymore they'll give a good review to a bad game and then turn around and give a bad review to a good game. Every gamer I been watching for this game has enjoyed the heck out of this game and their opinions matter than a company full of people who don't know how games work anymore.

The best advice these days is: *Don't listen to mainstream game reveiwers.* I'd rather suggest smaller time reviewers if you are really interested, but generally i'd reccomend just watching trailers, gameplay, etc, and see if its the game type you'd like. Worse comes to worse, Steam is rather easygoing on refunds, so if you don't like it, you can get your money back easily.

@3:20 when you've raised yourself on mobile games; that's how

If i gave my grandmother this game and told her to review it, i dont think the review would be very informative nor accurate. So how come these people get payed to do it? Most of these "game reviewers" that work for these major companies are obviously not suited for this propose. To review something accurately and fairly, you must first actually be knowledgeable in the medium you are reviewing.

so basically a skill issue

Remember Outlaws?

IGN proves once how imcompeted they are, regarding videogames. the AAAASS SW game got 7/10. You are joking, or he mad he didnt get a free trip to disneyland.

The "only 2 seconds of animation" bit can be a problem though, depending on how often it happens. In a horde game, it can become very repetitive. We all know this from the older Assassins Creed games for example where you basically just went into "parry mode" and had one animation play after the other. I don't know if the newer ones have it, if they do, that's just as bad. And that one is not even a horde game. It can be a much bigger issue than you think. It's cool and fun for the first 100 times, and gets annoying later on and you'll consider skipping it and taking the hit if that's faster. It's especially bad when the animations are not numerous enough. (i.e. 2 per enemy type for example) - thankfully, this isn't the case in SM2 Saying it's "optional" is just wrong as well. You have to do them, because they reload your weapons and don't consume ammo, heal you etc. You are meant to do them. There are weapons that have only like 25 shots (reserve ammo included), and one enemy might take 2-4 to get in execute range. And need up to 2 more to actually kill without an execute It's honestly one of my "pet"-peeves with this game as well, when I watched people play on the hardest difficulty and 5 of the whatever-the-sword-tyranids are called show up, the player basically went to each one of them and executed them with a 3-4 second animation, while each of these monsters were just staying in place as they were "stunned" from taking too much damage, waiting for their turn to be executed. It's certainly a bit silly. And they still have quite some HP when they are in execute range, so it's not like shooting them is any faster... and shooting a target that doesn't move and interact with you isn't fun anyway.

i seen that the gameplay was being wide spread the other day from many creators. I even distinctly watched IGN's take first for the laughs. BOY was I not disappointed. Dude sounded un-enthusiastic or like he was being held at gun point to be there and play it LOL. I don't understand whats so hard about letting someone ***INTERESTED IN THAT TYPE OF GENRE OF GAME, TO REVIEW THE APPROPRIATE GENRE OF GAME***.

Can't spell ignorance without IGN

I will never complain about i-frame animation rewards for well timed button inputs

If IGN says it's bad, buy the game that's it, buy the game. FOR THE EMPEROR !!!!

He is right about the finishers man even 1sec animation is boring when you start doing hundreds of finishers it becomes too much

Come on man. Thats not even footage from ign. Its b roll provided by focus. Why make a video like this and call out their skills and not even realize its the developers playing? The hate for ign is so misplaced.

4:00 ok that's kind of a bad take to say execution's are optional they are as optional as using a healing terminal in Darktide or any other game. like you can just not use them but your shooting yourself in the foot. because executions recover your armor so they seem very important to any build. still I don't think executions are boring.

Are ign guys even play games?

I am a Spanish speaker and several Spanish video game news sites speak very highly of Space Marine 2. They detail the positives and negatives of each game including this one and I feel they are a bit more reliable than IGN.

Ngl but this review is on the same level then IGN, the execution break the flow not because of their length but because of how often they happen. Its dumb to say "you dont have to do them" pretty sure you have cause the melee is build around it. Stop being a fanboy and look at things objectively lol

RE4 Remake was another third-person shooter with a parry mechanic

Maybe IGN did'nt get extra cash from Focus entertaiment so they give a salty review :p

Yeah I stopped listening to game journalists after one couldn't even beat the tutorial in cuphead.

At this point criticism of IGN is as "bad" as IGN. It's a company that publishers reviews from all different people. Anyone still criticizing a faceless company like IGN for dumb opinion of the person who wrote it seems like they have the right amount of braincells to be an IGN user lol.

3:51 slight correction (i only know this because i just finished space marine 1) doing an execution does not, in fact, make you invincible in the first game. yes, this is aggravating because as i’m executing the warboss, i get murdered by nobz and boyz.

This and WU Kong will receive 6 or lower from IGN for lacking “diversity” “inclusivity” and “WOKENESS”

sorry I know this will probably come across as negative but like…it’s IGN? They’ve always had dogass journalism. This isn’t new info, nor does it warrant a discussion beyond “wow they’re lame” ‘yea they are’ I don’t think a 7 minute video stating the obvious (IGN bad) is needed

To me the Reviewer came across as someone who wants to just sit back and be safe, with zero risk to there health Bar, (after his comments about Heavy & Assault), but something I did notice was his comment about the Tactical Marine, been Generic and compering it to the Ultramarine's. he could have left that comment out as all Chapters have Tactical Squads. it felt more like a dig than a legit criticism.

IGN is the CNN of game journalism

No woke, no DEI, no SBI, not an IGN favorite? I am in!

Rule of thumb is if ign praises a game it’s 100% garbage if they don’t like a game it’s 100% for us gamers. See you marines when 40 k drops my first intro to the series and I’m hyped

space marine 2 looks fucking epic!

It's a trans that made an "anti-colonialism" game and hates 40K. A "writer"/"developer"

Two things you can guarantee from IGN: 1 - Soulslike being the descriptor for nearly every game 2 - A general lack of understanding of game mechanics

I dislike ign as much as the next guy, but 7 minutes being dramatic about someone not like pary animation is crazy. Def just created to get views off ign hate. No substance. This video is just as bad as everything ign puts out

IGN would give it 101/10 if the game have Nocturne Sister of Battle who's turn out to be a lesbian and beating Bio Titan with empty hands Of course it could be higher if there's no man and they're carried rainbow flag with every characters have their own pronounce...

I'll shit on IGN any chance I get, but I don't think they were outta pocket here. You took a very small part of their preview, a 5 second off the cuff comment, and blew it up to a massive scale.

I give IGN ability to give a realistic score for a game review 1/10

The blue parry system really puts me in mind of Callisto Protocol. It had this exact thing where parrying lets you pop off a killshot right after.

This IGN reviewer has such a whiney voice its actually hard to listen to.

2:22 because the can’t show their own gameplay only the provided

Game journalist are a joke

You can hear the Soylent heavy diet in his voice

I legit do not understand how IGN is still around. Who the hell still trusts/cares about anything they say?

this vid is based

I always did the opposite of IGN.

They gave Deadpool 3 a 4 also

At 3:40 The original space marine game didn’t have invincibility during executions

An IGN preview it's a "reminder" Of the last opportunity for the developers to drop them cash for a good post launch review.

Game is not woke enough. IGN

Holy shit, what a massive overreaction. Imagine getting this triggered over some guy saying "the controller movement is a bit clunky" and "the parrying gets to be a bit much" about a game that _isn't even out yet._ And that doesn't even touch on this guys arguments that are just baffling. I guess thats just how outrage culture works though; figure out whatever the current hype is around, make a video thats designed to tap into our ape impulse to get irrationally angry at things and wait for the ad revenue to roll in. And by the time people start to realise that it really wasn't as big of a deal as they made it out to be the hype cycle has moved on and 90% of them have forgotten about it. It's not even funny when it's so predictable

no sister....bad and sexist game~IGN

Their failure was not inviting them over for a Disneyland vacation

We all know if the main character was some boring arse girl boss they’d be gushing over this game.

IGN says its bad = the game will be good

Who cares? No-one gives a fuck what IGN has to say, been that way for years. Total nothing burger

More like Woke journalist.

i also find that the parries and executions, as well as being satisfying to pull off, cool looking, and rewarding (in giving you armour back) also give you a moment to breath, so you're not just constantly spamming the same keys.

I was surprised that finishers in Space Marine don't make you invincible. If you don't time it right you can still be killed mid execution.

Do I even need to explain why IGN would not like W40k